Pema Chodron Quotes

Pema Chodron (Buddhist nun and author, born 1936). Below are 8 quotes by Pema Chodron from QuotePlace, each as a text quote card.

Buddhist nun and author · born 1936

Pema Chodron is an American nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and a widely read author and teacher. Her books, including When Things Fall Apart, bring Buddhist teachings on compassion and difficulty to a broad audience.

Quotes by Pema Chodron

1.The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
2.When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
3.If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
4.Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
5.The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
6.The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.
7.To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
8.It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

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